A 20-year-old Jackson man is facing a capital murder charge in the hit-and-run death of a Vicksburg man outside a Jackson restaurant last month.

Julius Reed Jr., 20, was arrested Friday at an undisclosed location in West Jackson, said Jackson police Sgt. Michael Childress this morning.

“We followed up on some leads that we had,” Childress said. “We arrested him based on facts that were given to us.”

Reed is charged in the death of Franklin Salas, 52, who died June 13 after being run down the previous evening near the Crawdad Hole restaurant on Lakeland Drive.

Salas was hit after coming out of the restaurant and confronting two men who had broken into his Ford Expedition, which was parked at the nearby Smith-Wills Stadium. The men got into their own car, described as a white two-door, late-model Chevrolet Monte Carlo with chrome rims, and as they drove away, hit Salas and kept going, Jackson police Detective Roderick Holmes said last month.

Salas was taken to University Medical Center, where he died from head trauma, Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart said.

His death combined with the burglary makes it a capital crime, subject to the death penalty.

Childress said police hope to make another arrest. “There is another suspect that we are following up on,” he said, “but Reed was our main suspect.”

Reed is being held without bond at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond pending an initial court hearing. Childress said the hearing is expected this week.

Salas was the owner of South Mississippi Signs and did business with Vicksburg and Gulf Coast casinos, as well as casinos in Louisiana and Florida. He originally was from Spokane, Wash., and had lived in Biloxi from the early 1980s until his move to Vicksburg about two years ago.